Bayer sees $1.5mln damages in second LLRice suit
Monday February 08 2010
A US court has ordered Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5million in damages to three long-grain rice farmers from Arkansas and Mississippi for losses they incurred because of contaminations of Bayer's transgenic LibertyLink62 rice. The suit is the second in about 500 similar pending cases involving around 6,000 farmers.
Arkansas farmers Joe and Jim Penn, of Portia, Ark., were awarded $480,692 in compensatory damages and fellow Arkansas rice farmer Jerry Catt, of Corning, Ark., was awarded $96,996 in compensatory damages. Black Dog Planting Co., of Lyon, Miss., was awarded $923,154 in compensatory damages.
